Netflix users are asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate a settlement that would see the company donating millions of dollars to nonprofits, MediaPost reports. The users say the settlement doesn’t benefit them, stating they were affected by a privacy glitch in which Netflix allegedly held on to subscriber names after they had cancelled their memberships, a violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1998. Netflix has denied violating the law but agreed to destroy the personal information and says the $9 million settlement is in line with privacy settlements by Facebook and Google.
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